Donald Trump has a noticeable habit of retweeting a large amount of white supremacists, and now his retweets are coming home to roost. You would think Trump, or whoever is running his social media, wouldn’t retweet accounts called “@whitegenocideTM” but he did. Yes, the leading republican candidate for President of the United States is regularly retweeting white supremacist Twitter accounts.

Full disclosure: that’s a Twitter account you may not want to see on due to a disturbing amount of violence and NSFW memes, misinformation, and praise for Hitler, but many are only knowing about it thanks to Trump’s exposure. Scary stuff. And that account is has a lot in common with many others Trump retweets. In fact, according to getlittlebird.com’s data crunching:

114 of the last ~2,000 people to use the word #WhiteGenocide have the word “Trump” in their Twitter bios.

And…

58% of the top 50 White Nationalist accounts on Twitter follow Donald Trump.

28% of them follow at least one of the top 50 White Nationalist accounts on Twitter (6 of 21)

62% of them follow at least 3 people who’ve used hashtag #WhiteGenocide lately (13 of 21)

And yet, when Jake Trapper asks Trump about his retweeting of these people on CNN’s State of the Union, Trump played dumb:

“Well, that, I know nothing about,” Trump replied with a grimace. “I don’t now about retweeting. You retweet somebody and they turn out to be white supremacists. I know nothing about these groups that are supporting me.”

To be fair, he may not have known about their pasts or beliefs, but shouldn’t a POTUS show due diligence in who he retweets to his five million followers?

i have been speculating that the donald had hired writers political analysts to create his outrageous daily bombast but knowing he is a cheapskate it now appears he might only need one or two unpaid volunteers to constantly scan twitter, facebook, instagram, and other sites to create his script. he couldn’t possibly come up with the torrent of ridiculous ideas all by himself.

There’s nothing to say about him. Anything he said doesn’t compare to legitimate white terrorists in white hoods with burning crosses. Also anything Wright said (which with my limited research I can’t find anything wrong with) was blown well out of proportion by right wing flame fanners. We haven’t forgotten about Wright he’s just A) not running for president and B) Never been linked to any group with a legitimate claim to being a terrorist organization.

@Deek Ermans I don’t mind TDK very much any more now that he doesn’t have a gold top Les Paul as his avatar. It was like if somebody animated the face of the Mona Lisa to just vomit blood and feces. Just wrong.

So Trump is on the hook for being associated with Twitter racists, but Obama gets a free pass for being associated with domestic terrorists and his anti-American, anti-Semitic preacher? You can’t have it both ways.

Don’t get mad at Trump, liberals: he’s just working out of your (successful) playbook. Identity politics go both ways.